Associate Professor
Dr. Vijay John is a researcher specializing in multimodal sensor fusion, robotic caregivers, autonomous driving, computer vision, and machine learning. He served as a Research Scientist at RIKEN in Seika, Kyoto, as part of the Guardian Robot Project beginning in September 2021. Prior to RIKEN, he was an Assistant Professor and Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the Toyota Technological Institute, Japan and a Postdoctoral Researcher at the University of Amsterdam, Netherlands. His work has been recognized with awards including Most Influential Paper of the Decade at MVA, Best Student Paper Award at FG, Best Paper Award at BMVC, and the Toyoda Research Achievement Award. He has worked extensively on academic-industry collaborative research projects with companies like Philips, Toyota, Denso, Nippon-Soken, and Tier-IV.